U.S. Conducts Industrial Espionage Globally

Le
Monde said the documents gave grounds to think the NSA targeted not
only people suspected of being involved in terrorism but also high-profile individuals from the world of business or politics.

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French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault [said] “I am deeply
shocked…. It’s incredible that an allied country like the United States
at this point goes as far as spying on private communications that have no strategic justification, no justification on the basis of national defence,” he told journalists in Copenhagen.

The NSA has been systematically eavesdropping on the Mexican government for years.

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In the space of a single year, according to the internal documents, this operation produced 260 classified reports that allowed US politicians to conduct successful talks on political issues and to plan internationalinvestments.

“We collect this information for many important reasons: for one, it could provide the United States and our allies early warning of international financial crises which could negatively impact the global economy. It also could provide insight into other countries’ economic policy or behavior which could affect global markets.”

The Spying Has Been Going On For Decades

It is true that the spying is about power, and not security. Proof here, here and here.
But this has actually been going on for decades.
It has long been clear that the U.S. spying program is being used for industrial espionage. The New Statesman wrote about it in 1988. Die Zeit in 1999.
The New York Times reported in 1995:

Each
morning, they gave Mickey Kantor, the United States trade
representative, and his aides inside information gathered by the Central
Intelligence Agency’s Tokyo station and the electronic eavesdropping
equipment of the National Security Agency, sifted by C.I.A. analysts in
Washington.

Mr. Kantor received descriptions of conversations among Japanese
bureaucrats and auto executives from Toyota and Nissan who were pressing
for a settlement, and read about the competing pressures on Japan’s
Trade Minister, Ryutaro Hashimoto.

When the negotiations came to a climax in Geneva, the intelligence
team was in place at the Intercontinental Hotel, working alongside Mr.
Kantor’s negotiators, offering assessments of how far the Japanese side
could be pressed.

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Spying on allies for economic advantage is a crucial new
assignment for the C.I.A. now that American foreign policy is focused on
commercial interests abroad. President Clinton made economic
intelligence a high priority of his Administration, specifically
information to protect and defend American competitiveness, technology
and financial security in a world where an economic crisis can spread
across global markets in minutes.

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At the Treasury Department, the trade representative’s office and the Commerce Department, officials say they now receive a torrent of information from the C.I.A.

A report published by the European Parliament in February alleges that Echelon twice helped US companies gain a commercial advantage over European firms. [Here's the report.]

Duncan Campbell, the British intelligence expert and journalist who
wrote the report, raises the prospect that hundreds of US Department of
Commerce “success stories”, when US companies beat off European and
Japanese commercial opposition, could be attributed to the filtering
powers of Echelon.

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The European consortium Airbus lost a $6bn contract with Saudi Arabia
after NSA found Airbus officials were offering kickbacks to a Saudi
official.

The paper said the agency “lifted all the faxes and phone-calls
between Airbus, the Saudi national airline and the Saudi Government” to
gain this information.

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The US firm Raytheon used information picked up from NSA snooping to
secure a $1.4bn contract to supply a radar system to Brazil instead of
France’s Thomson-CSF.

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Former CIA director James Woolsey, in an article in March for the Wall Street Journal, acknowledged that the US did conduct economic espionage against its European allies, though he did not specify if Echelon was involved.

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